After a long minute of stretched stillness. Elizabeth didn't glimpse the remorse in Callan's expression. It hurt so much that he had chosen to abandon her after years of succumbing to all that she had ever told him. Thinking through, she found the triggering words and decided to lash them out at him.

"I wish Leor didn't die—"

Callan gripped Orla tighter than before. He knew where his mother was heading, she always used his weakness against him whenever he had the upper hand in a ...